Surviving the Romance Fantasy

Perhaps deciding that there was nothing more to report, Seol Taepyeong picked up his sword, put it on his belt, and left the conference room.

After confirming all the reports, he has to immediately go to the main palace and perform his duties as an internal examiner, so he is not very busy.

After receiving greetings from Bicheon and Cheong Jinmyeong, Seol Taepyeong quickly left to take care of the next matter.

“…”

However… Ha Ji-hwa was just quietly looking down at the blueprints with her eyes wide open.

How many years have you been working as a study inspector?

I looked at the buildings several times, studied the building blocks, and got the job done… but did the credit ever come back to me?

Sweeping the district maps with his fingertips… Ha Si-hwa monologued as if possessed by something.

“My work…?”

Seeing Ha Si-hwa like that, Bi-cheon and Cheong Jin-myeong could not help but be confused.

*

It’s already been over a month since I haven’t been able to properly contact Hasihwa.

At this point, it was impossible for Sealing to remain still. Sooner or later, technicians from Jeongseon will enter the active room, but if they remain helpless like this until then, there is a high possibility that they will lose control of the situation.

Since the head of the family, Ha Kang-seok, was a person with a very strong sense of inferiority towards the Jeongseon Inga, he was hoping that the situation would not come to where he would be handed a prison sentence.

“Wol. “I don’t think I can leave every situation to Hasihwa anymore.”

Ha Deok-bi also agreed with Ha Ga-ju’s opinion.

Before the Jeongseon Inga could properly exert its power in the active room, it was necessary to set up a situation so that Hyeongwoljang Seol Taepyeong could never let go of the Seal Haga.

Even if he was a bit violent and a bit radical… I had to control him somehow. There isn’t much time.

“Would it be better to give up a few more people for the sealing? I heard that because of the large-scale civil engineering work being carried out inside the active room, even the staff working at Hyeongwoljang’s house are rushing out to work… If we apply ourselves now, we will have a great return in the future.”

In any case, what Ha Deok-bi can come up with is only a compromise.

But Gaju Ha shook her head.

“It seems that the time for such lukewarm appeasement measures to work has passed. “Now we must take the lead.”

Saying that, Gaju Ha took out several bamboo sticks and laid them out on the wooden table.

Ha Deok-bi looked down at the bamboo pole with a puzzled look on his face, but suddenly narrowed his eyebrows.

“Matriarch… this is…”

“I plan to visit the Crown Prince’s palace sometime next month to present a gift. Let’s take the opportunity and do the work then.”

“Matriarch… I am against this…”

Gaju Ha frowned at the sight of Deokbi Ha expressing the opposite opinion without even showing any sign of concern.

No matter how big his head had become, he never thought he would make such an openly unpleasant remark in front of the head of the Sealing House.

However, from Ha Deok-bi’s point of view, it was desperate.

“There is something called evil in humans that should never be touched by anyone. “If you mess with it carelessly, it will result in big trouble.”

“After living in the White Tiger Palace for several years, many of the poisons have died. “Howel.”

“Ha, matriarch.”

“When it comes to controlling people, if you start considering human feelings, there is no bottom or end. Why should I repeat such an obvious fact? Have you already forgotten the teachings of the Sealing Hagar? “Once you reach that high position, you feel like a really noble and clean person.”

“It’s not like that…it’s just…”

“I don’t have time. “There is no time to talk about this.”

Ha Deok-bi read the contents of the bamboo book again, his fingertips trembling.

The document containing a lot of personal information about Seol-ran, a middle-aged maid at the Crown Prince’s palace… was not obtained in a clean manner at first glance.

“…”

Seol Tae-pyeong cares for Seol-ran more than anyone else.

It’s not that Ha Deok-bi didn’t touch Seol-ran because he didn’t know that fact.

It’s against the law of heaven to bring in family members to harm them… I’m not swayed by that kind of moral code.

It’s just better not to touch Seolran.

Ha Deok-bi’s sharp intuition only made him cry.

Seol Tae-pyeong, who appears to be good-natured and has his own beliefs but is also courteous… he is such a disgusting person that he can throw away all morals and regulations and turn everything upside down.

It’s better not to even think about touching it.

“In order to wield an opponent, you must have a suitable weapon in your hand. Howol. “The more important the target is, the more likely there is no one worth keeping hostage.”

“…”

“Do you think you will be able to control your opponent forever just by compromising and giving in?”

However, the head of the family, Ha Kang-seok, just stood up with a solemn expression and said that.

If you couldn’t control your opponent with the warm sunlight, you needed to bring in a cold wind.

That was the way of the head of the family, Ha Kang-seok.

*

“Bicheon. “Let’s go eat soup.”

“…”

“answer.”

“Yeah…”

Seol Tae-pyeong, who had finished his work as an internal examiner, was on his way to have a meal with his lieutenant, Bi-cheon.

Although Bicheon had now retired from his position as an apprentice warrior, he was still working as an adjutant under Seol Taepyeong and taking on all sorts of chores.

Although he himself had no complaints, Seol Taepyeong must have been so concerned about it that he assigned a couple of apprentice warriors under his command.

I had just left my position as an apprentice warrior, and although it was very inconvenient to have already received two successors, I decided to be honest and grateful that Hyeongwoljang personally took care of the situation.

‘I think leaving the enemy palace and coming to the active room was a really good thing. but…’

The back of Hyeongwoljang Seol Taepyeong, who trudges ahead of Bicheon, is truly reliable.

And yet… it feels like my shoulders are strangely heavy after being given the title of Hungwoljang.

He seems to have been a person with a more humane side rather than being so solemn… In recent years, it seemed like the need to save face had increased while carrying out the work of Hyeongwoljang.

It’s something that can’t be helped. The place makes the person… Rather, in the end, people are creatures that must adapt to the place.

‘But… Chief Hyeongwol must be putting up with a lot of things.’

Above all, I have never seen him angry to the core since I became his deputy.

Even though there were times when he was loudly reprimanded, he never really looked like he was going off the rails and causing a mess… It makes me wonder if everyone adapts that way when they reach a high-ranking official position.

That was around the time when Bicheon and Seol Taepyeong entered the unfinished government office building.

A night with the moon high in the sky.

Ha Ji-hwa was sitting in a corner of the empty conference room.

“…”

“Jeongseong City (井星市) according to my birth date? Or just boldly take the name Sihwasi? Since it is the central market of the active room, it might be better to just keep it simple… No, it might still be better to have some individuality… Since it will be a place where engineers gather, would it be better to be a little more rigid… Still, I want to leave a little bit of my mark… Hmm… Hashi, Hoshi, Haewolshi… I don’t feel like it’s sticking to my mouth…”

She was looking at the district map and bowing her head.

From the looks of it, as soon as he finished his work for the day, he rushed over and was naming the street that would become the central market.

As if he wasn’t tired even though it was the middle of the night, he was writing a lot of letters under the lamplight… They were all candidates to become the name of the central market.

There were so many candidates that the wide wooden table was covered with bamboo sticks with all kinds of writing written on them. There were so many that it was so ridiculous that I couldn’t help but laugh.

“…”

Ha Si-hwa, who had been thinking for a while, raised his head and suddenly made eye contact with Seol Tae-pyeong.

“…”

“Huh…!”

A shiver ran down my spine as if I had caught something that should never have been caught, and I started rolling my eyes here and there as if I was embarrassed.

“Stand, stand, stand, stand…”

“…It’s so late, why haven’t you gotten off work yet? “Are you planning on falling asleep at work tomorrow?”

“Oh, no… that’s… there’s still something left to worry about…”

Ha Si-hwa was embarrassed and quickly organized the spread out bamboo sticks, then began to stutter uncharacteristically.

“No, have you been thinking about a name yet?”

“That’s… I’ve done a lot of architectural design… but I’ve never done naming before, so my thoughts get complicated…”

“If it’s really hard, I’ll decide for you. Let’s see…”

“No, no! it’s okay! How can you put such trouble on your master? I will do it! please!”

It wasn’t even hard work, but it seemed like Hashihwa was desperate for something.

As Seol Tae-pyeong nodded, sweating profusely, Ha Si-hwa exhaled and took all the bamboo sticks on the desk into her arms.

“Well, then… I’ll go in…”

Watching Hasihwa leave the government office stumbling after saying that… it was not difficult to see that he would continue to do the same thing once he got home.

Even though he was an administrator under his command… he was a person I didn’t even know.

hell (5)

Seolran has experienced life-threatening situations only three times in her life.

The first time was when I went out to the mountains to dig up medicinal herbs when I was young.

I was surrounded by a pack of wolves and was in a situation where I could be killed by having my neck bitten off at any moment. It was a moment when my cheeks were numb and tears were flowing, but my younger brother, Seol Tae-pyeong, ran out and killed all the wolves, so I was able to live.

The second time is when I was kidnapped by a group of bandits.

They were a vicious group who kidnapped village women and sold them as slaves, but my younger brother, Seol Tae-pyeong, chased them down and killed them all.

The third time is the birthday ceremony of Prince Hyeonwon.

He was caught in a landslide and trapped under a rock, and the entire mountain was infested with ghosts… but my younger brother, Seol Taepyeong, went on a rampage all night, cutting down and killing all the ghosts in the area.

When Seol-ran’s life was in danger, the younger brother came out and attacked everyone, so in fact, touching Seol-ran was no different from touching Seol Tae-pyeong, the head of the Hyeongwol, who was standing behind her with his arms folded.

‘I don’t have a good feeling… I’ll have to look for another number…’

Ha Deok-bi didn’t know everything about the past, but he had an intuition that touching Seol-ran, the maid, would be like shaking a beehive.

It wasn’t that I didn’t know Ha Gaju’s methods.

Ha Kang-seok is a person who, if he fails to capture him even after using all possible means, will end up using even his family as hostages.

It was clear that the intention was to use Dundokcho (鈍毒草). It was a means used by the Ha family every time something like this happened.

Dungeonweed is literally a poisonous herb that has a slow effect, but the magic and medicinal techniques used by the Ha family could accelerate or slow down the speed of the poisonous poison.

In other words, once you feed the target the poisonous plant that you have written down… it is no different from holding that person’s life in your hands.

It is a vicious means of kidnapping the other person and continuously poisoning them, making it impossible for the person who values that person to make any moves.

If you succeed in feeding the maid Seol-ran with Dundokcho, you will have no choice but to be swayed by the words of Seol Tae-pyeong, the executioner who cares for her dearly.

He takes the maid Seolran into his hands.

The head of the family, Ha Kang-seok, smiled sinisterly as he formulated the plan.

‘…’

However, Ha Deok-bi did not want to go along with Ha Ji-ju’s plan.

Still, I couldn’t answer the head of the family head on. In the meantime, I had to find some other way.

‘I can’t help it… Yes, this might be an opportunity…’

*

The sealing family’s carriage procession was passing through the interior of Cheongdo Palace.

He was on his way to stop by the throne room of the main palace where Emperor Unseong resides and offer all kinds of precious cotton fabrics, marine products, and various jewels.

Next, the carriage procession of Seal Haga that entered the Crown Prince’s Palace was considerably smaller than before.

Since there is a law within the palace, it has no choice but to be smaller in scale than the carriage presented as a gift to Emperor Unseong.

However, the various items contained within were all jaw-droppingly expensive.

“I come to see His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hyeonwon.”

The head of the family, Ha Kang-seok, raised his voice respectfully while bowing deeply in front of Prince Hyeonwon, who was sitting on the wooden table.

Crown Prince Hyeonwon.

He was favored by Emperor Unseong and would later become the ruler of Qingdao.

There is still no sign of life in the empty eyes.

It gives the impression that welcoming the head of the sealed family is simply done because it is something that must be done.

Since he is not yet an adult, it may be premature to hope that he will have the dignity befitting a prince.

However, those eyes do not belong to a young man who does not yet know anything about the world, but end up giving the impression of a fully-lived old man.

‘Still, compared to when I was young, I feel like I have a little more guns. Was there any reason?’

Ha Kang-seok lowered his head and examined Prince Hyeonwon’s condition in that moment.

It was rare to have the opportunity to see Prince Hyeonwon so close.

Ha Ga-joo can only relax when she keeps in her mind all the royal family’s every move. There was no way I could miss this situation.

A maid can be seen behind Prince Hyeonwon, who was sitting at a wooden table and studying the scriptures.

It was Seolran, the byeolseon maid who assisted the crown prince most closely. She is the biological sister of Seol Tae-pyeong, the head of the Hungwol.

The older sister is the byeolseon maid of the crown prince’s palace, and the younger brother is the head of the main palace.

A brother and sister who were not from a prestigious family but from the extinct Hwayongseol family had truly achieved tremendous success.

‘Hmm…’

Since Crown Prince Hyeonwon is close to him, he looks closely to see if he is someone he really cares about.

But there doesn’t seem to be any sign of that. Prince Hyeonwon doesn’t even look at Seolran, let alone care about her.

‘Still… there are too many unsettling aspects to make a radical move. If I can secretly feed her poisonous plant, I will be able to take that maid into my hands without much trouble.

Even though it may seem like that, Crown Prince Hyeonwon may be cherishing a maid named Seol-ran.

It would be wrong to hastily mess with Prince Hyeonwon and turn him into an enemy.

No matter how important a person Hyeongwoljang is, he is not someone who should be held in one’s hands even by turning the crown prince of a country into an enemy.

However… it doesn’t matter as long as I can somehow poison it.

A person who has been poisoned suffers from pain and dies. Even for medical doctors, it is not easy to tell whether it is poison or just a worsening chronic disease.

And the maid whose health deteriorated was naturally pushed out of the work front. Then, naturally, there will be no contact with the crown prince. Once you get there, it will become easier to swing.

In any case, maids are human resources that can be replaced at any time.

‘Now… how should I cook it…’

Ha Kang-seok lowered his head and smiled sinisterly.

Matriarch Ha was a person who had a general knowledge of how the maids worked. Also, he was a person who was good at using clever tricks.

“majesty! Among the special products of this sealing ceremony, there is a tea called ‘Dragon’s tongue.’ The scent was so wonderful and refreshing that even the civil servants studying at Taehwagak unanimously expressed their admiration.”

“Is that so?”

“With the intention of being of some help to His Majesty the Crown Prince, who will carry the world on his back in the future, in his studies, I have been seeking out and cultivating the most precious seed leaves.”

The words flowed out of Gaju Ha’s mouth like clear water.

Watching Gaju Ha speak while paying attention to every movement of the tip of her lips and every twitch of her eyes, she seems like a loyal subject who truly cares about the crown prince.

“But in the end, tea is about enjoying the scent and taste. No matter how good the efficacy of the tea we have prepared is, if it does not suit the taste of His Majesty the Crown Prince, what is the point?”

“…”

“We at Seonbong Haga take pride in handling tea leaves. Could you please savor the scent and taste and judge it objectively? If it doesn’t suit your taste, I would like to find and upload tea leaves that you like more. That is the pride of our Sealing Hagah.”

It’s unnecessary.

However, Prince Hyeonwon did not even say anything that he disliked.

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If that’s your opinion, then do it, I’m just saying it like a throwaway. Prince Hyeonwon was that kind of person.

“Bring teaware and prepare to see signs.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Whatever it is, someone has to taste it before it enters the royal family’s mouth.

And in such sudden situations, the byeolseon maid who usually accompanied the crown prince often played that role.

The head of the family, Ha Kang-seok, smiled kindly and looked at Seol-ran, the star maid. It means move quickly.

Seolran sweated for a moment, then lowered her head and said.

“I will bring teaware.”

No matter how much Ha Kang-seok sold his soul for power, he couldn’t do such a crazy thing as poison the teacup that was meant to be put into the crown prince’s mouth.

In order to poison the Byeolsun maid, she also poisoned the crown prince. Doesn’t that make her belly button bigger than her stomach?

If you accidentally speak poisonous words in front of the royal family, you could end up being murdered. It’s better not to do anything you can’t handle.

However, the place where the Ha family member wrote the number is on the byeolcup (separate cup) that the maids use when praying.

It is a great disrespect for the crown prince to touch the teacup he is to drink from first, so the maids scoop up the contents with a small ladle the size of a thumbnail and drink it.

If you use someone to trick the place in advance, you can feed Dundokcho to only Seolran, the Byeolseon maid.

All of this is based on Ha Gaju’s design.

If that happens, Seolran’s life will be in my hands. This is the key to wielding Hyeongwoljang Seoltaepyeong.